<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 10-19. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Contractor</span> means a person who agrees to furnish materials or perform services at a specified
               price, especially for construction.
               
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               <span class="ital">Merchant</span> means a person whose business is the buying and selling of goods for profit or whose
               occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit.
               
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               <span class="ital">Price gouging</span> means increasing prices for essential goods and services during or after an impending
               or actual emergency such as a hurricane, earthquake, or other natural or manmade disaster.
               
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               <span class="ital">Vendor</span> means a person who vends or sells.
               
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               (Ord. No. 70, Â§ II, 4-19-1999)
               
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